Better copy for broken webapp

Open-EO / openeo-web-editor

An interactive and easy to use web-based editor for the OpenEO API.

https://editor.openeo.org

Apache License 2.0

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Closed soxofaan closed 1 year ago

soxofaan commented 1 year ago

If the webapp deployment is broken in some way (e.g caching issue with one of the necessary JS files), a user just gets

Sorry, this website requires a modern browser. Please update your browser or use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as alternative.

This is misleading and confusing (e.g they get this also in one of the suggested browsers).

soxofaan commented 1 year ago

A couple of possible improvements:

improve error message to make it clearer that it can also be a servers-side/webapp issue (not only because of used browser)
improve detection of what is actually wrong
Allow for some theming/styling of the error message
Allow for customization of the error message (e.g. link to a documentation page or some support tool)

m-mohr commented 1 year ago

Sounds reasonable. Happy to accept PRs.

soxofaan commented 1 year ago

let's start with just improving the error message a bit #314